Martinsburg daily gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1887-1887, 1887-04-23
BRIEF MENTION.

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cense bill
The Newaygo, Mich, Furniture company
has been closed by creditors.
The stove manufacturers Of New York
have organized for protection
Maj. Pratt committed suicide near Patas-
kala, O., by taking morphine.
Near Pikeville, n. c., Taylor Eastman and
his son were killed by lightning.
Another high license bill has been intro
duced into the NewYork Legislature.
Joseph Butsch, Of indianapolis, was killed
by falling derrick at Lafatetts, Ind.
All the stove foundries Of Cincinnati have
instituted lockout in consequences Of .
strike
Mayor John A Roche formally assumed
his duties as mayor Of Chicago Tuesday
morning.
John Blair, feeble old man, was burned
to death while burning logs near Vicksburg,
Michigan.
Near Wabash, Ind, Charles McGinnis was
fatally shot in the abdomen while cleaning
revolver. ~
Richard jay is trying the new treatment
for consumption at Terre Haute, Ind, and
with great success
Alexander Mitchell, president Of the Chi
oago Milwaukee & st. Paul railroad, died in
New York Tuesday.
The annual meeting of the Women's Bar.
list foreign missionary society OF the east viii
convene at Pittsburg.
Louis & Co., Of Cincinnati, assigned in
consequence Of Judgment for $40. 900 being
rendered against them.
II is estimated that the stove molders'
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men out Of employment.
Father Won Droste, Of Madison Michigan,
was robbed of S75 by three masked men.
The robbers were captured.
Simon Gerard, aged sixty years, is under
arrest at Xenia for the killing of James
Zeiner, at Bowersville, O., last August.
Clement Mubridge, heavy dealer in
stocks at Hastings, Mich, has decamped,
leaving $7OO or $500 Of forged notes beh mi.
A bold burglar relieved James HOLMES, OF
Fairchild, Ind, of his pants, while he was
asleep, in the pocket of which was $40O i'll
cash.
Proctor & Gamble the we'll known soaD
manufacturers of Cincinnati, have voluntar-
lily agreed to share their profits with their
employees.
The machinists in all the tube works in
Western Pennsylvania have made demand
for an advance of so per cent. for night work
to take effect May 1.
William Heine's Touring mill at Elgin, Ill,
was burned, and Nichols, Murphy & Goisters
agricultural implement factory badly dam
aged Tuesday evening.
BY an accident on the New York Central
railroad near st. townsville, N. Y, Edward
Canarr, engineer, was killed, and E. Wilce,
fireman, had q leg broken.
Settlers who fiocked into the Grow Indian
reservation under Arthur's strained order
opening the lands, have been requested to
leave by the present administration.
The Scioto County Republican convention
will be held in Portsmouth, O., June Il.
The annual encampment Of the Grand
Army Posts Of Iowa, is in session at Du-
buque.
Western Union has increased its capital
e1,2OO,OOO, making total capital of $751;
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John Hastings, Of Louisville is afflicted
with leprosy. He contracted the disease in
Honolulu.
A bill for total prohibition was defeated in
Newfoundland by the vote Of the speaker OF
the assembly.
Several people were nearly asphyxiated in
. New York tenement house by gas leaking
from the mains
The ,molders OF Resor & Co.'S stove foun-
dry, Cincinnati. have gone out on account
OF the tabooed St Louis patterns.
Frank Loster, . workman on the Georgia
Central railroad and his wife Becky, both
colored, were caught on . trestle and killed
The death sentence Of Jefferson Bowling, in
Jail at Columbus, win probably be committed
to imprisonment for life by Governor For
aker.i